In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy has changed.
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Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

Senator Markey speaking on the Senate floor about the critical need to renew tax credits for clean energy industries like wind, solar and energy efficiency.

published:20 Dec 2013

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Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the director of the environmental economics program at Duke University, joins CBSN's Reena Ninan to discuss.
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Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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The renewable energy sector here in the United States has been the fastest growing energy sector for about the last two years. They're growing in terms of job numbers. They're growing in terms of sales. They're growing in terms of revenue.
They're outpacing coal, natural gas, fracking, and even the oil industry in some regards; and it's because of that that Donald Trump has decided to take a sledge hammer to the progress being made by the renewable energy industry in the United States.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he was going to be imposing a 30% tariff on all solar panels imported into the United States, so what this means is that if a company overseas is making solar panels and we want to buy them and use them here in the United States we have to purchase them, they bring them into the United States, but before they can come onto our shores there's going to be a 30% tax on them.
At the time, when Republicans are talking about cutting taxes for all corporations, all industries, all wealthy people, they're raising taxes on solar panels to help destroy the renewable energy industry in the United States in order to protect their buddies over in the fossil fuels sector.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not believe in climate change, and he does not even like renewable energy. He told us repeatedly on the campaign trail and in his last year of being president that coal jobs were coming back.
Well, they haven't come back. They're, in fact, still losing jobs because nobody wants to use coal anymore; but, not to be outdone, Donald Trump decided, "Well, you know what? If you don't want to use coal, I'm going to make solar power, renewable energy, so damn expensive that you have no choice. That's going to get me those coal votes in 2020, assuming I don't go to prison before that election."
That's what we're talking about here today. I have never in my lifetime, and I don't think there ever has been in history, seen an administration in the White House be so hostile towards science, because that's what's at the root of all this. It's not just that he's taxing renewable energy to help drive them out of business, it's that he's also doing it because he doesn't believe climate change is real!
I mean, the other ... If you want to talk about dumb science, things from administrations, I guess, the only other thing that would compare to this was when John Adams decided to green light an expedition to go to the center of the earth because he thought the earth was hollow. That's, essentially, what we're dealing with here today, except that Donald Trump has plenty of evidence telling him that climate change exists. He just choose to ignore it.
He has the most well-informed, well meaning people at his disposal here in the United States, and, really, all around the globe, and yet he chooses to embrace ignorance, because that's the only thing he understands.
For those of us who care about the environment, I'm sure we're going to find a way to come up with that extra 30% charge that he's putting on solar panels, but most people in this country aren't going to be able to afford that. Governments who were thinking about, or, state governments, I should say, who were thinking about starting solar farms, they're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
Instead, we're going to get more years of using fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and destroying the planet, all because Donald Trump is a complete science-denying moron.

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to humans' global energy consumption and 22 percent to their generation of electricity in 2012 and 2013, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (non-biomass), 3.8% hydro electricity and 2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.

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In 1881, after the Confederacy purchased the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora, President James G. Blaine of the United States declared war. With the help of British and French forces, the Confederate States again defeat the United States in the Second Mexican War, forcing the latter to cede a portion of northern Maine to the Canadian province of New Brunswick. After this defeat, the United States turned to Germany for military assistance and training, and the national mood of the U.S. changed to desire of revenge against the enemies that surrounded the U.S.—Canada, from where Britain invaded the U.S., and the Confederacy.

Trump is a native of New York City and a son of Fred Trump, who inspired him to enter real estate development. After two years at Fordham University and while studying at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Trump worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son. Upon graduating in 1968 he joined the company, and in 1971 was given control, renaming the company "The Trump Organization". Since then he has built hotels, golf courses, and other properties, many of which bear his name. He is a major figure in the American business scene and has received prominent media exposure. The NBC reality show The Apprentice bolstered his fame, and his three marriages were extensively reported in tabloids.

'Sun tax' in Spain hurting solar providers | DW Documentary

In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy has changed.
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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

Senator Markey speaking on the Senate floor about the critical need to renew tax credits for clean energy industries like wind, solar and energy efficiency.

4:01

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the director of the environmental economics program at Duke University, joins CBSN's Reena Ninan to discuss.
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3:53

Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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The renewable energy sector here in the United States has been the fastest growing energy sector for about the last two years. They're growing in terms of job numbers. They're growing in terms of sales. They're growing in terms of revenue.
They're outpacing coal, natural gas, fracking, and even the oil industry in some regards; and it's because of that that Donald Trump has decided to take a sledge hammer to the progress being made by the renewable energy industry in the United States.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he was going to be imposing a 30% tariff on all solar panels imported into the United States, so what this means is that if a company overseas is making solar panels and we want to buy them and use them here in the United States we have to purchase them, they bring them into the United States, but before they can come onto our shores there's going to be a 30% tax on them.
At the time, when Republicans are talking about cutting taxes for all corporations, all industries, all wealthy people, they're raising taxes on solar panels to help destroy the renewable energy industry in the United States in order to protect their buddies over in the fossil fuels sector.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not believe in climate change, and he does not even like renewable energy. He told us repeatedly on the campaign trail and in his last year of being president that coal jobs were coming back.
Well, they haven't come back. They're, in fact, still losing jobs because nobody wants to use coal anymore; but, not to be outdone, Donald Trump decided, "Well, you know what? If you don't want to use coal, I'm going to make solar power, renewable energy, so damn expensive that you have no choice. That's going to get me those coal votes in 2020, assuming I don't go to prison before that election."
That's what we're talking about here today. I have never in my lifetime, and I don't think there ever has been in history, seen an administration in the White House be so hostile towards science, because that's what's at the root of all this. It's not just that he's taxing renewable energy to help drive them out of business, it's that he's also doing it because he doesn't believe climate change is real!
I mean, the other ... If you want to talk about dumb science, things from administrations, I guess, the only other thing that would compare to this was when John Adams decided to green light an expedition to go to the center of the earth because he thought the earth was hollow. That's, essentially, what we're dealing with here today, except that Donald Trump has plenty of evidence telling him that climate change exists. He just choose to ignore it.
He has the most well-informed, well meaning people at his disposal here in the United States, and, really, all around the globe, and yet he chooses to embrace ignorance, because that's the only thing he understands.
For those of us who care about the environment, I'm sure we're going to find a way to come up with that extra 30% charge that he's putting on solar panels, but most people in this country aren't going to be able to afford that. Governments who were thinking about, or, state governments, I should say, who were thinking about starting solar farms, they're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
Instead, we're going to get more years of using fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and destroying the planet, all because Donald Trump is a complete science-denying moron.

Extend Renewable Energy Production Tax Credits

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

'Sun tax' in Spain hurting solar providers | DW Documentary

In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy has changed.
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published: 20 Jun 2017

Breaking down Portland Measure 26-201: Clean energy business tax

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Senator Markey speaking on the Senate floor about the critical need to renew tax credits for clean energy industries like wind, solar and energy efficiency.

published: 20 Dec 2013

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the director of the environmental economics program at Duke University, joins CBSN's Reena Ninan to discuss.
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published: 25 Oct 2017

Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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Extend Renewable Energy Production Tax Credits

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

'Sun tax' in Spain hurting solar providers | DW Documentary

In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy h...

In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy has changed.
_______
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In Europe's sunniest country, the government is dragging its heels on renewable energy.
For decades Spain subsidized solar power, but now the state's policy has changed.
_______
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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclea...

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the direct...

Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the director of the environmental economics program at Duke University, joins CBSN's Reena Ninan to discuss.
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Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar pane...

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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The renewable energy sector here in the United States has been the fastest growing energy sector for about the last two years. They're growing in terms of job numbers. They're growing in terms of sales. They're growing in terms of revenue.
They're outpacing coal, natural gas, fracking, and even the oil industry in some regards; and it's because of that that Donald Trump has decided to take a sledge hammer to the progress being made by the renewable energy industry in the United States.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he was going to be imposing a 30% tariff on all solar panels imported into the United States, so what this means is that if a company overseas is making solar panels and we want to buy them and use them here in the United States we have to purchase them, they bring them into the United States, but before they can come onto our shores there's going to be a 30% tax on them.
At the time, when Republicans are talking about cutting taxes for all corporations, all industries, all wealthy people, they're raising taxes on solar panels to help destroy the renewable energy industry in the United States in order to protect their buddies over in the fossil fuels sector.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not believe in climate change, and he does not even like renewable energy. He told us repeatedly on the campaign trail and in his last year of being president that coal jobs were coming back.
Well, they haven't come back. They're, in fact, still losing jobs because nobody wants to use coal anymore; but, not to be outdone, Donald Trump decided, "Well, you know what? If you don't want to use coal, I'm going to make solar power, renewable energy, so damn expensive that you have no choice. That's going to get me those coal votes in 2020, assuming I don't go to prison before that election."
That's what we're talking about here today. I have never in my lifetime, and I don't think there ever has been in history, seen an administration in the White House be so hostile towards science, because that's what's at the root of all this. It's not just that he's taxing renewable energy to help drive them out of business, it's that he's also doing it because he doesn't believe climate change is real!
I mean, the other ... If you want to talk about dumb science, things from administrations, I guess, the only other thing that would compare to this was when John Adams decided to green light an expedition to go to the center of the earth because he thought the earth was hollow. That's, essentially, what we're dealing with here today, except that Donald Trump has plenty of evidence telling him that climate change exists. He just choose to ignore it.
He has the most well-informed, well meaning people at his disposal here in the United States, and, really, all around the globe, and yet he chooses to embrace ignorance, because that's the only thing he understands.
For those of us who care about the environment, I'm sure we're going to find a way to come up with that extra 30% charge that he's putting on solar panels, but most people in this country aren't going to be able to afford that. Governments who were thinking about, or, state governments, I should say, who were thinking about starting solar farms, they're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
Instead, we're going to get more years of using fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and destroying the planet, all because Donald Trump is a complete science-denying moron.

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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The renewable energy sector here in the United States has been the fastest growing energy sector for about the last two years. They're growing in terms of job numbers. They're growing in terms of sales. They're growing in terms of revenue.
They're outpacing coal, natural gas, fracking, and even the oil industry in some regards; and it's because of that that Donald Trump has decided to take a sledge hammer to the progress being made by the renewable energy industry in the United States.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he was going to be imposing a 30% tariff on all solar panels imported into the United States, so what this means is that if a company overseas is making solar panels and we want to buy them and use them here in the United States we have to purchase them, they bring them into the United States, but before they can come onto our shores there's going to be a 30% tax on them.
At the time, when Republicans are talking about cutting taxes for all corporations, all industries, all wealthy people, they're raising taxes on solar panels to help destroy the renewable energy industry in the United States in order to protect their buddies over in the fossil fuels sector.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not believe in climate change, and he does not even like renewable energy. He told us repeatedly on the campaign trail and in his last year of being president that coal jobs were coming back.
Well, they haven't come back. They're, in fact, still losing jobs because nobody wants to use coal anymore; but, not to be outdone, Donald Trump decided, "Well, you know what? If you don't want to use coal, I'm going to make solar power, renewable energy, so damn expensive that you have no choice. That's going to get me those coal votes in 2020, assuming I don't go to prison before that election."
That's what we're talking about here today. I have never in my lifetime, and I don't think there ever has been in history, seen an administration in the White House be so hostile towards science, because that's what's at the root of all this. It's not just that he's taxing renewable energy to help drive them out of business, it's that he's also doing it because he doesn't believe climate change is real!
I mean, the other ... If you want to talk about dumb science, things from administrations, I guess, the only other thing that would compare to this was when John Adams decided to green light an expedition to go to the center of the earth because he thought the earth was hollow. That's, essentially, what we're dealing with here today, except that Donald Trump has plenty of evidence telling him that climate change exists. He just choose to ignore it.
He has the most well-informed, well meaning people at his disposal here in the United States, and, really, all around the globe, and yet he chooses to embrace ignorance, because that's the only thing he understands.
For those of us who care about the environment, I'm sure we're going to find a way to come up with that extra 30% charge that he's putting on solar panels, but most people in this country aren't going to be able to afford that. Governments who were thinking about, or, state governments, I should say, who were thinking about starting solar farms, they're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
Instead, we're going to get more years of using fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and destroying the planet, all because Donald Trump is a complete science-denying moron.

Extend Renewable Energy Production Tax Credits

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like t...

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

Where are the jobs being created in clean energy?

Wind, solar and other clean-energy technologies are sustaining millions of jobs -- and adding them faster than legacy energy providers. Brian Murray, the director of the environmental economics program at Duke University, joins CBSN's Reena Ninan to discuss.
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Trump Tries To Kill Solar Power By Taxing The Hell Out Of It

Donald Trump has decided that he’s going to single-handedly kill the renewable energy industry in the United States by imposing a 30% tax on imported solar panels. This tax is going to cripple the growing industry that was on pace to take over the country’s leading producer of energy, and Trump understands that perfectly, which is why he did it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
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The renewable energy sector here in the United States has been the fastest growing energy sector for about the last two years. They're growing in terms of job numbers. They're growing in terms of sales. They're growing in terms of revenue.
They're outpacing coal, natural gas, fracking, and even the oil industry in some regards; and it's because of that that Donald Trump has decided to take a sledge hammer to the progress being made by the renewable energy industry in the United States.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he was going to be imposing a 30% tariff on all solar panels imported into the United States, so what this means is that if a company overseas is making solar panels and we want to buy them and use them here in the United States we have to purchase them, they bring them into the United States, but before they can come onto our shores there's going to be a 30% tax on them.
At the time, when Republicans are talking about cutting taxes for all corporations, all industries, all wealthy people, they're raising taxes on solar panels to help destroy the renewable energy industry in the United States in order to protect their buddies over in the fossil fuels sector.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not believe in climate change, and he does not even like renewable energy. He told us repeatedly on the campaign trail and in his last year of being president that coal jobs were coming back.
Well, they haven't come back. They're, in fact, still losing jobs because nobody wants to use coal anymore; but, not to be outdone, Donald Trump decided, "Well, you know what? If you don't want to use coal, I'm going to make solar power, renewable energy, so damn expensive that you have no choice. That's going to get me those coal votes in 2020, assuming I don't go to prison before that election."
That's what we're talking about here today. I have never in my lifetime, and I don't think there ever has been in history, seen an administration in the White House be so hostile towards science, because that's what's at the root of all this. It's not just that he's taxing renewable energy to help drive them out of business, it's that he's also doing it because he doesn't believe climate change is real!
I mean, the other ... If you want to talk about dumb science, things from administrations, I guess, the only other thing that would compare to this was when John Adams decided to green light an expedition to go to the center of the earth because he thought the earth was hollow. That's, essentially, what we're dealing with here today, except that Donald Trump has plenty of evidence telling him that climate change exists. He just choose to ignore it.
He has the most well-informed, well meaning people at his disposal here in the United States, and, really, all around the globe, and yet he chooses to embrace ignorance, because that's the only thing he understands.
For those of us who care about the environment, I'm sure we're going to find a way to come up with that extra 30% charge that he's putting on solar panels, but most people in this country aren't going to be able to afford that. Governments who were thinking about, or, state governments, I should say, who were thinking about starting solar farms, they're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
Instead, we're going to get more years of using fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and destroying the planet, all because Donald Trump is a complete science-denying moron.

Extend Renewable Energy Production Tax Credits

While visiting a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing facility in Brighton, Mark Udall called on Congress to extend renewable energy production tax credits, like the production tax credit for wind, which are critical to the success of the clean energy economy.
Learn more: http://markudall.senate.gov/ptc

Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to humans' global energy consumption and 22 percent to their generation of electricity in 2012 and 2013, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (non-biomass), 3.8% hydro electricity and 2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.

Inslee “is committed to making sure we have a Democratic candidate in 2020 that will put fighting climate change and transitioning to a cleanenergy economy front-and-center in their campaign and the ... Carbon tax initiative would charge fee on polluters, spend money on cleanenergy....

Tom Wolf’s proposal to hit the natural gas industry with a severance tax to ...Sweeney had said he couldn’t support the bill as written because of the earned income tax increase. He also wanted more cleanenergy initiatives in the state rather than see the natural gas industry grow....

25 commentary "Carbon tax can reunite parties," ChrisCasey states that a carbon tax can "create jobs, clean up our air, promote technological advancements in energy, and that it doesn't cost the American family one cent and could put money back into their pockets." ... Fossil fuels for energy is not the only source of carbon that would be taxed....

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Inslee “is committed to making sure we have a Democratic candidate in 2020 that will put fighting climate change and transitioning to a cleanenergy economy front-and-center in their campaign and the ... Carbon tax initiative would charge fee on polluters, spend money on cleanenergy....

Tom Wolf’s proposal to hit the natural gas industry with a severance tax to ...Sweeney had said he couldn’t support the bill as written because of the earned income tax increase. He also wanted more cleanenergy initiatives in the state rather than see the natural gas industry grow....

25 commentary "Carbon tax can reunite parties," ChrisCasey states that a carbon tax can "create jobs, clean up our air, promote technological advancements in energy, and that it doesn't cost the American family one cent and could put money back into their pockets." ... Fossil fuels for energy is not the only source of carbon that would be taxed....

But only 1 in 5 Republicans ended up supporting the measure, while it also lost the support of groups like the Sierra Club and others on the left for not doing enough to help poor people and promote cleanenergy, and it ultimately failed ... environmental and cleanenergy projects....

To a question about moving Illinois to 100 percent cleanenergy, Ugaste said he supported moving forward on it, but to recognize that this type of change does not happen overnight ...Johnson said solar and wind energy is largely untapped in Illinois, though the state has already adopted some cleanenergy laws that have led to some job creation....

The current Republican state legislature has raised taxes on the citizens of this state in its new “energyclean-up tax.” The GOP claims it has cut taxes, but we need legislators like Dan Besse who will not only do what is best for the citizens of the 75thDistrict by protecting ......

Sweeney thinks schools should be funded by the state’s general fund, not only by local property taxes... Sweeney said he concedes the industry “has brought a lot of money into the region,” but he thinks the state should be focusing more on solar, wind and geothermal sources of cleanenergy....

Yesterday, ALLETE CleanEnergy announced the completion and sale of the ThunderSpirit project to Montana-Dakota Utilities, which includes an after tax margin of approximately $9 million ... In addition, ALLETE CleanEnergy, as we just talked about, closed out on the Thunder Spirit ......

Two business owners at the center of the complaint have since come out saying they actually support the measure, which would use the money generated from the tax to fund cleanenergy projects and job training around the city ...Similar allegations have been lodged against opponents of a cleanenergy-related measure in Washington state....

Sweeney thinks schools should be funded by the state’s general fund, not only by local property taxes... Sweeney said he concedes the industry “has brought a lot of money into the region,” but he thinks the state should be focusing more on solar, wind and geothermal sources of cleanenergy....

The measure would create a tax on large retailers with funds going to cleanenergy projects such as weatherizing homes and installing solar panels and job training, with an emphasis on projects that benefit communities of color ... Ye said there’s a clear connection between Measure 105 and the Portlandcleanenergy proposal, Measure 26-201....